Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-04-29

ful'' and had canvassed it thoroughly, To
give you an idea of how the ministry of
all denominations were pervaded with the
dry sentiment, L give you list of these
OF the clergy who have spoken Tor that
SIDE IN their own churches or elsewhere in
the county since the three weeks campaign
opened-Rev. L. G. Miller. Rev. J. W.
Click, Rev. S. F. Sanger. Rev. j. F. Pref
lyman, Rev. J. w. Howe, Rev. Patterson
Fletcher. Rev. T. o. Register, Rev. r. M.
Wheeler, and Rev. Messrs. Kebler, Col
lander, Boyd, Briefly, Wilson and Dyer
all denominations and all colors. There
were 125 addresses and sermons delivered
by ministers il the county in the three
weeks preceding the elecrlon.
THE CAMPAIGN IN THE TOWN.
The still campaign in the town was
busily carried on until the last county
court day-one week before the election.
The w. G. T. U. shoWered the temperance
literature around and Mr. Funkhouser's
printing Office did the same thing, but
there was no speaking until court day,
April 18th. Ga that day there was a big
Dry meeting at the Court House presided
over by Rev. A. P. Funkhouser. l am in
formed that it was at this meeting that it
was made public that the Tunkard and
Mennonite denominations would go Dry
IN a body. A speaker said, l am told,
that he had heard chat these two powerful
churches would not be found On their side.
Rev. Messrs. Click and Showalter prompt
~ contradicted it, and it turned out be-
fore the explanation was over that ex-
tracts from the Discipline of the Tunkard
church on the subject of liquor had been
printed and extensively circulated as
Dry campaign document. at that meet
ing Mr.. John Gray of Loudoun, who
spoke at Stanton during the campaign
there. made the ninth of series of power
full speeches he had made in Rockingham
in the three weeks. From that court day
meeting on, through the week, the Drys
stirred up the town. Neither the white
Baptist nor Presbyterian churches at
present have pastors, SO they were not rep
resented in the meetings, but Rev. L. 9.
Miller of the M. E. Church South, and
Rev. Mr.. Dyer of the colored M. E.
church, and Rev. T. Kester the Lutheran
pastor, were actively engaged nightly
The white and colored Methodist church
es were both open. On Friday night at
the Court house the noted Rev. J. II.
Hector, colored, appeared, having come
on from New York, and with him SPOKE
Prof. d. n. Vassar, colored, Of the color
ed Baptist College at Richmond, and Rev
Mr.. White, colored, of Ronceverte, W. Va.
Saturday night the meeting was held in the
same place. On Sunday afternoon there
was prayer meeting OF white and color
ed Drys at the same place and that night
another prayer meeting was held which
lasted till after midnight. The singing
was led BY choir furnished from the
Tunkard church. Among those who ad-
dressed the meeting were Rev. J. Il.
Hector, Rev. Mr.. Boiling. pastor of the
colored Baptist church. Rev. Mr.. Dyer
of the colored Methodist church, DR.. W.
j. Points. E. S. Conrad, lawyer, Rock
ingham Paul Of the Staunton bar, D. M.
Swltzer, VIM. Herring of Dayton, a far
mer, Prof Vassar and E. A. Stands. In
his address Mr.. Rockingham Paul of
Staunton, warned the colored portion of
tbs audience against Dorsey johnson,
colored speaker @the Vets had brought
from Stanton, telling them that the ad.
vice he would give them was not to their
future welfare. A letter from the Epls-
copal rector sympathiZing with the meet
ing was read, When the prayer meet
ing adjourned after midnight. the Execu-
tive Committee remained up, in the Court
House, all night, preparing for the voting
of to-day.
THE WET CAMPAIGN.
The VETS as far as can gather, ran a
still campaign with one exception, and
that was that they got Dorsey JOHNSON,
well known colored speaker from Staun-
ton, to come down and speak on Friday
night. A gentleman who heard him, tells
me that he made speech which involved
all the methods Of touching the hearts of
his colored audience. According to my IL
formant, he would speak little while,
then get down on his knees and pray for
ahem, and then sing for them, and IN
short used all the paraphernalia, including
the splendors of the golden streets and the
great white throne, and the terrors of the
smoking pit. His efforts were not without
their result, for it is estimated that two
out of three of the colored voters of Har-
risonburg went wet.
AT THE POLLS.
By dawn Monday morning the ladies of
She W. G. T. u, had opened an all-day
lunch in twenty feet of the ballot box,
and at it [ saw actively engaged !,
among others, Mrs. Judge Paul, MRS. A.
P. Funkhouser, Mrs. Henneberger, Mrs.
Allen, and Mrs. e. A. Stands, the last
named Stanton lady, formerly Miss
Annie Hoover. At the ballot box stood
the blue ribboned challengers, but
while the Vets were as active. [ saw no
Wet badges. The absence of the red rib
bon made a marked difference between
the polling places here and at Staunton.
About the first voting that was done, and
one which gave the Drys cold chill, was
"a body of siXty-three colored men who,
the Drys charge, had been coralled the
might before, and VITO came down and
voted Wet in "a body. But after this squirt,
and another something like it in which
thirty-two colored men in line voted Wet,
the voting went steadily but slowly the
other way. Among the first Dry votes cast
John Paul, Judge of the U. S. District
Cogr&. The largest vote Harrlsonburg
ever cast was 1872, given in the election be-
tween Fitzhugh Lee and John 5. Wise,
and by 2 O'Clock to-day sol Of that vote